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This Air Materiel Command file, released by the U.S. Department of War, holds Incident Summary Sheets 173 through 233, sent under a 1949 transmittal. Most of the sheets record sightings of unidentified aerial objects in 1948 and early 1949. They cover Santa Fe, New Mexico, San Pablo, California, Honolulu, Kentwood, Louisiana, and Jackson, Mississippi. Each sheet gives the observer's details and the object's size, speed and shape, and often an investigator's note on how reliable the witness seemed. The file ends with a blank guide for investigating reports, including radar sightings.
From the source:Release of 2026-05-08 Incident: N/A, N/A. NARA Record Group 38, catalogue id 143685. Each of these incident summaries includes a "Check-List - Unidentified Flying Objects" that contains details about the incident. Many summaries also include witness lists or statements and other narrative reports or descriptions.
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Incident No. 195 1. Date and Time of Observation: 31 October 1945 - 15452 2. Where Sighted: Goose Bay Labrador 3. Observer's Position: Goose Bay, Labrador from GCA Unit (i.e., ground, air, control tower, etc.) 4. Name and Address of Observer: GCA Operator, Col Jones, Capt Verner Newfoundland Base Command, Ft Pepperell, Newfoundland 5. Occupation and/or hobbies: GGA Operator, Commanding Officer and Group Commander. 6. Attention Attracted by: Target on PPI Scope 7. Number of Object( ) Seen: 1 8. Size of Object(s): Undetermined 3. Color of Object(s): N/C 10. Shape (Sketch if Possible) N/3 11. Nature of Luminosity: N/S (directed beam of light?) 12. Altitude of Object: N/S (estimated) 15. Estimated Distance of object from Observr r: 3 miles south of field 14. Estimated Speed of Object: 251262 15. Time in Sight: N/S 16. Tactics: N/S 17. Sound inside b. Object(s): X/S 18. Direction of Flight of Object(c) Southwest 19. Apparent Construction: N/S 20. Effect on Clouds: N/S 1. Exhaust Trail Color of): N/S 22. Winner of Disappearance: Went into ground clutter at 6 miles 23. Weather Conditions at Time of Lighting: N/S. 24. Peculiarities Noted: N/S 25. Summary of Incident: (Over) (See attnced page)
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Official release, from the pursue collection. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is above. The text was read from the page images by GLM-OCR; expect the odd misread word. 144 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.